Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quote
We come from different worlds, I said, but each has so much to teach the other. There will be moments of dissonance, when people struggle to understand each other’s ways, but once we get past our misconceptions, imagine the reward.The dancers perform in the market of Wyvern’s Court; they will be beside avian poets, singers, philosophers and storytellers or we cannot hope to succeed. Merchants will haggle prices and barter goods as they have in both our markets throughout history. Scholars will work to impart their valuable knowledge to their students. Artists will create beauty. And our children will grow up together, playing the same games, taught by the same teachers, side by side until as adults, I pray, they laugh at the petty arguments we had in this nest while we designed their world.And ravens will dance, and serpents will fight for the lives of falcons.
We come from different worlds, I said, but each has so much to teach the other. There will be moments of dissonance, when people struggle to understand each other’s ways, but once we get past our misconceptions, imagine the reward.The dancers perform in the market of Wyvern’s Court; they will be beside avian poets, singers, philosophers and storytellers or we cannot hope to succeed. Merchants will haggle prices and barter goods as they have in both our markets throughout history. Scholars will work to impart their valuable knowledge to their students. Artists will create beauty. And our children will grow up together, playing the same games, taught by the same teachers, side by side until as adults, I pray, they laugh at the petty arguments we had in this nest while we designed their world.And ravens will dance, and serpents will fight for the lives of falcons.
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About Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and has lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was fourteen years old. She has moved from her family's Sudbury home to a nearby Massachusetts town.